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Body storming is a unique method that includes empathy work, ideation, and prototyping. Body storming is technique of physically experiencing a situation to derive new ideas. It requires setting up an experience or environment with necessary people or inanimate objects and making it a live example for the purposing of physically testing it. Body storming can also include physically changing your environment to suit your own needs or for the testing. The main focus is on how a subject interacts with their environment and the choices they make while in it.

It is a method used in interaction design as a creative technique. The term body storming is derived from the word brainstorming which basically is the process of critically analyzing and thinking to arrive to a solution or answer to various problems. The problem or solution can be tangible or intangible. Body storming, takes the technique of brainstorming to a whole new level by making it tangible and it involves the physical interactions of the subject or problem within the environment it has taken place or implemented. Body storming involves physical interaction which makes it more sensible and efficient in coming up with solutions than brainstorming which only takes into considerations various thoughts the thinkers come up with.

Finally body storming has various methods which results in coming up with better user interfaces, as the designer is in place with the space or product or service that will be used and engaged in that environment. One of the methods is strong prototyping, this is when the designer replicates the environment in which the product/service will be used and tests the design prototype in the simulated environment. Another method is the use-case theatre, this is a more physical method which is a good way of evaluating designs, the designer simulates the environment in which the product/service will be used by using actors and props to re-enact situations. These were some of the characteristics and methods involving Body storming.